Reveal body camera

By Wendy Gillis Crime Reporter Fri., June 8, 2018 Toronto police have begun the search for a supplier of body-worn cameras as part of the ongoing effort to equip all front-line officers with the technology. No decision has been made to proceed with what would be an enormous purchase, estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars spread over a decade, at a time when the service is attempting to curb its billion-dollar budget. The police service will first conduct what Insp. Mike Barsky, the lead officer on the force’s body-worn camera project, called an “in-depth and robust evaluation” of body-worn camera technology. The service has posted a request for information on tendering website Merx, and a call-out for detailed information about the cameras themselves, including storage and software. “What we want now is to inform ourselves on what the state of the technology is today,” Barsky said in an interview. The technology has … [Read more...] about Toronto police take another look at body-worn cameras

PARIS: Chinese tech giant Huawei on Tuesday (Mar 27) launched its latest P series handsets - the P20 and P20 Pro - in the hope of attracting on-the-go shutterbugs by offering top-notch camera features.Mr Richard Yu, chief executive of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group, unveiled the company’s flagship products during the launch event held at Grand Palais in Paris.It was the camera features and functions that took centre stage, in particular, the P20 Pro with its three-camera setup - which was teased in the company’s invite to media attending the event.The Leica triple camera feature was touted as the first of its kind. It has an 8-megapixel (MP) telephoto lens and a 40MP RGB lens positioned together, while a third 20MP monochrome lens is housed below them.MORE NOT NECESSARILY BETTERAccording to Huawei, this allows users to have a 5x hybrid zoom, which combines both optical and digital zoom, while the phone’s artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities … [Read more...] about Huawei zooms in on camera innovations during P20, P20 Pro launch

caption Nicole Stott, a NASA astronaut, says that after completing a tethered spacewalk, she got why her mom was freaked out about her being in space. source NASA Seeing our planet from space is a rare treat – fewer than 540 people have ever left the Earth. Seven astronauts who’ve blasted off from our planet with NASA came together this week for the premiere of the National Geographic series “One Strange Rock.” The show, produced by Darren Aronofsky, takes an up-close look of life on Earth from a range of perspectives, juxtaposing macro views of the planet from space with micro shots of some of the tiniest oxygen-producing organisms, which are four times thinner than a human hair. The program aims to show off “the beautiful clockwork” of the Earth, Aronofsky said, adding that “it’s much more complicated than anything a human could conceive of.” The astronauts featured in the series said that leaving the Earth … [Read more...] about ‘Holy shite, what am I seeing out here?’: 7 astronauts reveal what it really feels like to live in space

By Colin Perkel The Canadian Press Mon., March 12, 2018 TORONTO—Workers at auto-body shops deliberately damaged cars, installed used parts but billed for new ones, or invoiced for phantom repairs, according to an investigation by a Canadian insurer that is calling on government to help in curbing the problem. Aviva Canada found about half the total expenses submitted for repairs to crashed vehicles during its investigation in Ontario were bogus — an amount the company estimates adds up to hundreds of millions of dollars a year. “Nobody has ever really sampled the extent of fraud with any kind of accuracy,” Gordon Rasbach, Aviva Canada’s vice president of fraud management, said in an interview. “This is the first time in Canada that we’re aware of that anyone has actually taken a sample, albeit a small one, at random, and used actual cases in progress to put some kind of numbers on it.” In its investigation — results … [Read more...] about Secret probe reveals widespread body-shop fraud

MANILA: Philippine police will soon have to wear body cameras during anti-narcotics operations and visit suspects' homes only in the daytime, in an effort to erase doubts about the conduct of those on the front lines of a bloody war on drugs. Police chief Ronald dela Rosa said police would wear body cameras to record arrests, under a Jan. 19 memorandum made public on Wednesday that takes effect once the devices are procured.The police are making a comeback in President Rodrigo Duterte's ferocious anti-narcotics campaign, a few months after he suspended them amid unprecedented scrutiny of their conduct."Once they are available, we will require them to wear that," Dela Rosa said of the cameras."We would have a policy where there will be no anti-drug operations without body-worn cameras," he told reporters.He did not specify a date by which the cameras are expected to be made available to police, however.Police data shows nearly 4,000 drug suspects were killed since Duterte came to power … [Read more...] about Philippine police to wear body cameras in war on drugs